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“My basic platform begins with God,” Dasher said Monday in a phone interview with Reuters. “I want to go to D.C. to restore America to what she once was.”

Dasher may face Rep. Vance McAllister, who was caught on tape kissing a staffer earlier this year. It is unclear if McAllister will seek reelection; he has until August to decide.

The House hopeful and pharmaceutical company employee says he is running with the full support of the A&E “Duck Dynasty” gang. “Uncle Phil said he’s vetted me for 36 years,” Dasher said of the show’s patriarch.